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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells

Start date: September 1, 2024

Finish date: September 30, 2024

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Aug 25, 2024 Mark rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi-fantasy-dystopia, tbr-2024

This a book which deals with the interesting idea of how much of who we are is connected with how we literally see ourselves and how others see us. When that image is stripped away, what of us remains? The main character thinks light of his situation at first, but then discovers as do others, how little tethered to reality and morality he actually is.
A modern writer would probably delve more into the psychological repercussions than the antics that result. I think many modern readers would expe ...more

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Dec 30, 2023 Rana (This City That Book) rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics

“Herbert George “H.G.” Wells has been called the father of Science Fiction (along with Jules Verne)”… this is how the preface of my copy opened. It was an introduction by a nameless writer that piqued my interest and hiked up my expectations of the story.

On the cover of that same copy, there was another quote that hiked up the afore-mentioned expectations even more. It read… “Wells is the prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction.” That quote was n ...more

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Jan 24, 2011 nicole rated it it was ok

I was definitely glad this book was free in my iPhone Kindle app. It was an interesting read in that one would wonder what it would be like to be invisible. However the invisible man turned out to be very angry and want to have a reign of terror on others. Although a creative idea, just not my kind of book.

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